Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-12-17
DEMPSEY STILL CHAMPION.
Reagan Defeated in Forty Five Rounds
of Hard Fighting.
The Ring Pitched Twice on Account OIL
the Advancing Tide.
Terrible Punishment Of the Vanqutshed
Gamely Endured.
Dempsey, Though Often Hit, shows No
Signs of 1t.
The Fight Lasts One Hour and Nine
Minutes.

AVE-" ~
and Johnny Reagan met this morning up
the Hudson and fought to q finish for the
middleweight championship Of America and
$4,000 prize money under the London
prize ring rules. The ring was pitched near
the shore, and the fight began about $3.50.
Terrific fighting was lone from the Start,
clinching and pounding being tho order. In
the secoud round Dempsey claimed Reagan
wac fouling him by spiking. and the referee
cautioned Reagan against it. In the third,
however, Reagan accidentally spiked
| Dempsey in a terrible mannerin the left leg.
| The cut was SO deep the bone could be seen.
There was much wrangling, Dempsey's UNI
| pire claiming the fight. The referee over
looked it, however. In the fifth round the
tide, which was On the flood, began to creep
into the ring. Dempsey was compelled to
move partly out OF his corner. Still the
men fought in a desperate manner until the
eighth round which was fought in water
three inches deep all over the ring. Demp-
sey's leg was now in a terrible condition,
to fight the more desperately if possible
| than before, Furnishing Reagan quite Sc
! verely. There was no doubt by this time
that Reagan was
NO MATCH FOR DEMPSEY
in the matter of wrestling, as the latter
had thrown his opponent with ease and
vigor each time they clinched. At the close
of the eighth round the referee stopped the
fight until another ring could be pitched on
dry land. Time occupied during these
eight rounds, eighteen minutes. All went
to the boat and the principals went to
bed. Wrangling between tine parties con-
tinued loud and long. At 1910 p. m: the
fight was resumed in a much better place.
Dempsey went right at Reagan and a c)inch
ensued during which terrific in.fighting was
done. 1t ended by Dempsey hackheeling
Reagan and going down with him heavily.
In the tenth Dempsey smashed Reagan on
his right with terrific force, drawing blood,
which was claimed but not allowed for
Dempsey, as Reagan had got first blood in
the second.
EAGAS FOUGHT HARD
and fast, and elected much praise. In the
eleventh and twelfth Dempsey pounded and
threw Reagan again. It was evident the
latter had the worst OF the bargain in
agreeing to the London rules. He went on,
however, like a Spartan. On the thirteenth
| Dempsey attempted again to back heel his
| opponent, who went down on his knees to
avoid a fall. Reagan wal thrown hard in
| both the fourteenth and fifteenth, while the
infghtins was o! the most savage charac.
ter. In the sixteenth and seventeenth were
two more falls for Dempsey, who also gave
Reagan q terrible smash on the nose. In
| the eighteenth and nineteenth the same
thing was kept up, although Reagan fought
gamely and did the best he could. In the
twentieth Dempsey kept up a tattoo or
Reagan's ribs until oozing blood made the
body appear raw. When Reagan wen
down to avoid a fall Dempsey cursed him
and told him to get up and fight. Reagan
came up angry for the twenty -first. anC
the
FIGHTING WIS FURIOUS,
Dempsey receiving some heavy blows. Rea
gan received a terrible thump on the ribs
In the forty.first both men at the same in
slant fetched each other various clips witt
the right aod left. Dempsey had scarcely /.
mark on him at this time, besides a swol
len left eye. Rounds forty-two, forty-thret
and forty-four practically closed tht
battle. Dempsey numerically punished
Reagan, whose lips were pulled anc
his left eye closed. He was voted
by spectators as game a man as evel
stood in the ring. He never CRIED
quits. At the beginning Of round forty
fifth, at the solicition of Reagan's friends
who saw he had no chance, his second
jumped mo the ring and threw up the
sponge. The fight lasted one hour nine
minutes. In the first ring there was
| eighteen minutes fighting, and in the sec
ond forty-one minutes. The fight ended
at 1:Ol p. M leaving Dempsey still cham.
| pion middleweight. Both men weighed 147.
Dempsey has won thirty fights and had
six draws. He has never been defeated.
Reagan only fought two battles previous
to this, winning both.